ABOUT THE BOOK: In the swarthy desert metropolis of San Bernardino a robbery of a diamond drawer and subsequent shooting of three shoppers at the then new J.C. Penny department store leaves two dead and a heist ring on the loose. The year is 1957. A close confidante of one dead takes up the investigation into the sundry behind-the-scenes lifestyles of predominantly teen predators who rob and murder as they go. The glamour of violence with scheming females and spiteful male counterparts who cruise the scene from the burned-out suburb of Canyon Vista all the way across the county to the remote...

ABOUT THE BOOK:
The Voyage is J. Lea Koretskys second play. Set in Australia, Tasmania and the Fiji islands, this tale wends a charted course of morality through seasonally high wind infested islands which require complicated medical surgery and long term treatments for physical and corruption-oriented malaises. The expedition takes forty years at sea, features an unusually skilled physician team and their families at home.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
The author resides in San Joaquin County. She has written eleven fiction books, two non-fiction on psychotherapy and one free-style verse collection.

When is an act a criminal corroborant endeavor? When are determinations for death inconclusive as to cause? "Crimes and Offenses" describe in seven novellas little known causes of murder. Impulsivity and deviation as evidenced by departures from usual definitions for crimes involving continental terrorism form motivation, narcotic depredation and psychopathology. In "Siberia" an educational convention hipster congeals funds for building use in order to do business with the West; A husband from Philippines wanted for countless murders stalks his wife to her death for her investigative file on...